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useful info
This web site is best viewed on version 6, or higher, of Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer, or Mozilla/Firefox > 1.0. Other browsers will usually work but may not render certain features as intended.
Monitor resolution should be set to 800 x 600 pixels or better.
Enable JavaScript for proper page navigation and graphics manipulation within the web site. For instructions on enabling JavaScript, click here: Netscape Navigator/Mozilla; Internet Explorer. (This site tries not to abuse JavaScript.)
Pages on this web site conform to the W3C XHTML 1 standard. You may follow the hyperlink below to check the validation yourself.
This site uses CSS2 (Cascading Style Sheets), which controls page formatting and layout. Most modern browsers handle CSS well, (but not perfectly).
Note for Mac Users
Internet Explorer for Mac (I tested IE 5.2 on MacOS X.2) flubs most pages on this site. Microsoft did a slapdash job porting the software to OS.X and it mangles page layout, colours, and scripts. Mac IE reportedly works better on OS 8 and 9, but I recommend that Mac users upgrade to the Safari or Firefox browsers, both free.
Mac's own Safari browser mis-aligns picture captions on the gallery pages, but otherwise displays things correctly. Get Safari here.
- No display problems arose with Mozilla Firefox. Although not quite as fast as Safari, Firefox offers some tools unavailable in Safari. Get Firefox here.
Viewing pictures on your computer is quite different than viewing pictures in a real art gallery.
The typical display resolution for Windows PC's is 72 dpi (dots per inch) and 96 dpi for Mac's. This limits the amount of detail that can be presented on screen. Compare these figures to the commonly used print resolutions of 300 - 600 dpi.
- If you've seen a TV display wall at a large electronics retailer, you probably noticed that colours differ dramatically from set to set. Computer monitors are similar. It is impossible to accurately render colour for all computers because each machine may use:
- different gamma (brightness) values
- different monitor specifications
- different user display settings
- different web browsers
1. Open the Edit menu (Mozilla menu on Mac OS X) and choose Preferences.
2. Under the Advanced category, click Scripts & Plug-ins. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click Advanced to expand the list.)
3. Select the checkbox next to Enable JavaScript for Navigator.
4. Click OK to save changes and close the Preferences dialogue box.
In Internet Explorer 6, Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) will usually block JavaScript files on web pages. The yellow Information Bar, which appears below the Address Bar when the page first loads, requires that you view a number of dire warnings and dialogue boxes to enable JavaScript.
1. Click anywhere on the Information Bar, which says: "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this file from showing active content which could access your computer. Click here for options..."
2. Click "Allow Blocked Content"
3. Click "Yes" to the Security Warning dialogue box.
For more information, see Internet Explorer's online Help > Contents > Internet Explorer's Information Bar > Understanding the Internet Explorer Information Bar.
You might also consider changing browsers. The free Mozilla Firefox uses an interface similar to Explorer, but is generally faster and simpler.
For older versions of Internet Explorer, it may be necessary to enable JavaScript under Internet Options. From the Menu Bar, choose Tools > Internet Options > select the Security and/or Advanced tabs and review the check boxes that control scripting privileges. See the browser's online Help for more information.
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